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Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976
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Product Description This companion volume to Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period, which covered the social and political forces between the 1920s and 1966 that shaped the trajectory of working-class struggles in Barbados and led to its decolonization, addresses mainly the first two decades of Barbados’s independence as a sovereign monarchy under Errol Barrow and the Democratic Labour Party. “[An] incisive and rigorous left analysis of the conundrum facing a peripheral capitalist Caribbean society. Watson explains why Barbados, unable to break decisively with its colonial past and hamstrung by the deceit of the promise of sovereignty, is forced to make compromises with imperialism and its domestic representatives of capital.” –Linden Lewis, Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania “[A] masterful exploration of Barbados’s political development. . . . [Watson] offers a skilful critique of Barbados’s quest for ‘development’, ever unable to be pro-working class, in the shadows of colonialism and the spectre of the United States. . . . A must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of Barbados, the Caribbean and world politics, not only between 1966 and 1976 but in the present. –Kristina Hinds, Senior Lecturer in Political Science (International Relations), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados “Meticulously researched and brilliantly written. . . . All of the major influences that helped to fashion the young state are carefully catalogued, analysed and associated with their relevant theoretical underpinnings. . . . Watson lays bare the intricacies and contradictions that made the [independence] period and its main actors so important to the shaping of modern Barbados.” –Harold Codrington, Deputy Governor (retired), Central Bank of Barbados About the Author Hilbourne A. Watson is Professor Emeritus, Department of International Relations, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His other publications include Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period, The Caribbean in the Global Political Economy and Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THE FIRST VOLUME OF THIS WORK , Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period, covered the social and political forces and the circumstances that developed between the 1920s and 1966 and fundamentally shaped the trajectory of working-class struggles that led to decolonization in Barbados and the British Caribbean. Those struggles and other world developments, including the outcome of World War II, which left Britain in a severely weakened international condition, forced the British to implement the bourgeois democratic revolution that was deliberately designed to order and manage decolonization and give the disintegration of British imperialism a soft landing. The anti-colonial and descriptive anti-imperialist struggles in the British Caribbean never became substantively anti-capitalist or anti-British. In Barbados the targeted reforms occurred in areas that included capital- labour relations, workers’ rights in the workplace, the development of party politics, franchise reform and electoral reform, via the introduction of universal adult suffrage, which led to the black majority government. The reforms were implemented gradually and coincident with the reinforcement and entrenchment of white-minority capitalist hegemony within a changing international geopolitical (Cold War) framework. This complex, contradictory process, which left an indelible imprint on the transition to independence in Barbados, was mediated by the “historic compromise”, which conditioned the “political consensus” that the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) especiall
